On This Day - March 16
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on March 16.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Captain Marvel | Saturday | $29,418,618 | $426,829,839 |
| 2002 | Ice Age | Saturday | $19,068,000 | $176,387,405 |
| 2013 | Oz the Great and Powerful | Saturday | $18,221,991 | $234,770,996 |
| 2012 | 21 Jump Street | Friday | $13,239,489 | $138,447,667 |
| 2008 | Horton Hears a Who | Sunday | $12,901,768 | $154,529,439 |
| 2024 | Kung Fu Panda 4 | Saturday | $12,784,805 | $193,978,190 |
| 2024 | Dune: Part Two | Saturday | $11,778,737 | $282,709,065 |
| 2007 | 300 | Friday | $10,072,330 | $210,614,939 |
| 2018 | Tomb Raider | Friday | $8,984,365 | $58,250,803 |
| 2018 | Black Panther | Friday | $7,482,380 | $700,059,566 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on March 16.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 21 Jump Street | Friday | $13,239,489 | $138,447,667 |
| 2018 | Tomb Raider | Friday | $8,984,365 | $58,250,803 |
| 2001 | Exit Wounds | Friday | $6,386,000 | $51,758,599 |
| 2007 | Premonition | Friday | $6,341,302 | $47,852,604 |
| 2018 | I Can Only Imagine | Friday | $6,237,850 | $83,482,352 |
| 2001 | Enemy at the Gates | Friday | $4,810,000 | $51,396,781 |
| 2018 | Love, Simon | Friday | $4,613,108 | $40,826,341 |
| 2007 | Dead Silence | Friday | $2,878,975 | $16,574,590 |
| 2016 | Miracles from Heaven | Wednesday | $1,887,811 | $61,705,123 |
| 2007 | I Think I Love My Wife | Friday | $1,746,309 | $12,559,771 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was March 16.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Captain Marvel | $67,988,130 | $426,829,839 |
| 2002 | Ice Age | $46,312,454 | $176,387,405 |
| 2008 | Horton Hears a Who | $45,012,998 | $154,529,439 |
| 2013 | Oz the Great and Powerful | $41,252,702 | $234,770,996 |
| 2012 | 21 Jump Street | $36,302,612 | $138,447,667 |
| 2007 | 300 | $32,877,328 | $210,614,939 |
| 2024 | Kung Fu Panda 4 | $30,149,970 | $193,978,190 |
| 2024 | Dune: Part Two | $28,505,206 | $282,709,065 |
| 2018 | Black Panther | $26,650,690 | $700,059,566 |
| 2018 | Tomb Raider | $23,633,317 | $58,250,803 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Friedrich Feher (1889, died on September 30, 1950 at the age of 61), Isobel Elsom (1893, turns 133 this year), Conrad Nagel (1897, died on February 24, 1970 at the age of 72), Henny Youngman (1906, died on February 24, 1998 at the age of 91), Robert Rossen (1908, died on February 18, 1966 at the age of 57), Pat Nixon (1912, died on June 22, 1993 at the age of 81), Mercedes McCambridge (1916, died on March 2, 2004 at the age of 87), Leo McKern (1920, died on July 23, 2002 at the age of 82), Jerry Lewis (1926, died on August 20, 2017 at the age of 91), Bernardo Bertolucci (1941, died on November 26, 2018 at the age of 77), Jerry Jeff Walker (1942, died on October 23, 2020 at the age of 78), Susan Nimoy (1943, turns 83 this year), Victor Garber (1949, turns 77 this year), Erik Estrada (1949, turns 77 this year), Michael MacRae (1949, turns 77 this year), Kate Nelligan (1950, turns 76 this year), Steven Grives (1951, turns 75 this year), Irwin Keyes (1952, died on July 8, 2015 at the age of 63), Alvin Sanders (1952, turns 74 this year), Isabelle Huppert (1953, turns 73 this year), Nancy Wilson (1954, turns 72 this year), Jimmy Nail (1954, turns 72 this year), Bruno Barreto (1955, turns 71 this year), Clifton Powell (1956, turns 70 this year), Flavor Flav (1959, turns 67 this year), Gary Basaraba (1959, turns 67 this year), Todd McFarlane (1961, turns 65 this year), Jerome Flynn (1963, turns 63 this year), Kevin Smith (1963, died on February 15, 2002 at the age of 38), Gore Verbinski (1964, turns 62 this year), Jamie Tarses (1964, died on February 1, 2021 at the age of 56), Belen Rueda (1965, turns 61 this year), Lauren Graham (1967, turns 59 this year), Judah Friedlander (1969, turns 57 this year), Alan Tudyk (1971, turns 55 this year), Rupert Sanders (1971, turns 55 this year), Nicolas Bro (1972, turns 54 this year), Tim Kang (1973, turns 53 this year), Anne Charrier (1974, turns 52 this year), Sienna Guillory (1975, turns 51 this year), Tara Buck (1975, turns 51 this year), Paul Schneider (1976, turns 50 this year), Joe Egender (1976, turns 50 this year), Kyle Newman (1976, turns 50 this year), Brooke Burns (1978, turns 48 this year), Felisha Terrell (1979, turns 47 this year), Marcela Mar (1979, turns 47 this year), Alexandra Daddario (1986, turns 40 this year), Jung So-min (1989, turns 37 this year), Madison Riley (1990, turns 36 this year), Sierra McClain (1994, turns 32 this year), Isabelle Allen (2002, turns 24 this year)
Died on this day in history: Bebe Daniels (1971, at the age of 70), Frank Sinatra, Jr. (2016, at the age of 72), Stuart Whitman (2020, at the age of 92), David Seidler (2024, at the age of 86), Emilie Dequenne (2025, at the age of 43)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.